a British diplomat, who witnessed the massacre of students perpetrated by the Chinese Army, reveals harsh details: “They ordered to shoot the crowd before running them over.””
EDITORIAL AND EFE, Beijing
24/12/2017
The Tiananmen massacre It is still a taboo topic in China , whose communist regime only then recognized 200 victims, the official figure still valid today in that country, giving today, more of 27 years later, although there are other calculations that raise it to 2.700 muertos. However, according to the testimony of a British diplomat recently revealed, were 10.000 the students who were murdered at the hands of Chinese army in the protests in the Forbidden City square.
A document from the british diplomacy disqualified a few weeks ago, that the Hong Kong website has published HK01, offers previously unknown details of one of the most notable and serious events in recent China, but systematically silenced by the authorities of this country. This is a telegram from the then British ambassador in Beijing., Alan Donald, sent to the British Foreign Office on 5 June (one day after the massacre) and declassified last October at the National Archives in London.
“The minimum estimated number of civilian deaths is 10,000”, wrote Donald in the telegram, where places of confrontation between the army and civilians that until now were unknown are revealed, like the Shilipu neighborhood, on the eastern outskirts of the capital. According to the document, The source of all this data is a “member of the Council of State” (China Cabinet), whom he describes as a friend and “reliable source”, capable of separating facts from speculation and rumors”.
The three-page telegram states that it was the members of the Army 27 of the Chinese Armed Forces, usually stationed in the central Chinese province of Shanxi and most described by Donald as some “illiterate and primitive”. Directed by Yang Zhenhua, who according to the letter was nephew of the then Chinese president, Yang Shangkun, army soldiers 27 They were initially informed that they were going to participate in maneuvers that were going to be recorded for a televised documentary and for ten days they did not receive news of the protests that were taking place in Beijing..
“The first attacks occurred in Mucidi and Shilipu (neighborhoods located in important access areas to the capital), the first three waves were stopped by protesters (…) and army troops 27 They ordered to shoot the crowd (civilians and soldiers from other squads) before running them over with their armored vehicles.", points out the document.
Beijing residents gathered around the smoldering remains of more than 20 burned armor
during the Tiananmen protests, he 4 June 1989 (AFP)
He adds that one of the drivers of those armored vehicles that contributed to the massacre, after suffering an accident during the clashes, “He was disturbed and now demands to be executed for the atrocities he committed”.
Regarding Tiananmen Square, main stage during month and a half of protests repressed by the army on days 3 and 4 June 1989, The document highlights that the protesters present there were theoretically given one hour to vacate the place “but after five minutes the armored vehicles attacked.”.
That indiscriminate attack, in which it is claimed that Chinese soldiers were also run over by military vehicles, seems to refute previous testimonies in which it was stated that there had not been too many violent incidents in Tiananmen Square and that these had been concentrated at the entrances to the city..
He telegram abounds in cruel details, like the one that points out that army soldiers finished off wounded comrades, that four injured young students “begged for their lives but were attacked with bayonets” or that a mother was murdered in front of her three-year-old daughter.
Attacks on ambulances are also reported, even military, who tried to assist the wounded, in a story that seems to describe a hitherto unknown confrontation those days between the different squads of the Chinese Army destined to repress the pro-democracy protests.
”Some considered that other squadrons would attack the Army 27, But they didn't have ammunition.", stated in the document, in which it is stated that there was a danger of a civil war between opposing groups of the regime and the army.
